@Madhu: "Hi,
    While I was browing through a music site, I donwloaded a few codec for 
Windows Media Player. But later they turned out to be spyware.
     I ran Symantec Anti Virus and Windows Defender but they could not catch 
the malicious program. 
     It always runs and it creates system tray icon in the task bar and 
frequently displays a window with the text "Your Computer is infected with 
Virus.. blah blah..".
and when I click the window it takes me to its anti virus site and prompts 
me to buy their product. 
     I ran the computer in safe mode but could not find the process/program 
that is associated with this. 
     I even searched the list of services/processes in the start-up but all 
my efforts went in vain. 
     Please help me if there is any means of finding out the program/process 
that causes this tray icon/message pop-up to show up.
thanks,
madhu."
    @Pandaman: "My reply is at the bottom of your message :
<quote>
Hello ! I bet you have browsed in (v-codec) and you downloaded that malware 
in the "codecs" . Please , perform the instructions listed in my site to 
clean your PC:
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Bronze level Contributor
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    @Madhu: "Hi,
   Thank you. I got rid of the insect. I scanned my computer using Lavasoft 
Adware and it quickly found out and removed the bug.
   thanks once again.
madhu.
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